Cardinals Nip Phillies in Extra-Inning Finale
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Veteran lefthander Jamie Moyer and Adam Wainwright, both with identical 13-11 season marks, dueled for 5 innings before each team notched a run in the 6th inning.
Although both starters combined to walk 9 hitters, Moyer walking 5 in 6 innings and Wainwright walking 4 in 8 innings, the game went to extra innings as the Phillies bullpen held them in the game, only giving up 2 hits over the 3 innings.
But with two outs and a runner on 2nd base in the 10th, closer Brett Myers was tagged for the game-winner on catcher Yadier Molina’s walk-off RBI single to leftfield, his 3rd hit of the game as the Cardinals edged the Phillies in their series finale by a 2-1 score.
The Phillies loss ended a 6 game winning streak. Combined with the Mets‘ 8-4 win in their finale with the Washington Nationals, the Mets got a little breathing room by increasing their lead to 2 1/2 games over the hard-charging 2nd place Phillies. The Phils also dropped to 2 1/2 games behind the San Diego Padres in the NL wild card race. The Padres rallied on leftfielder Scott Hairston’s 3 run walk-off homer to squeek past the Pittsburgh Pirates by a 5-3 score. The Phils remained 2 games up on the 3rd place Dodgers who lost again to the Colorado Rockies.
AP sports writer R.B. Fallstrom recaps the scoring for Yahoo sports;
Scott Spiezio flied out to the right-field wall against Brett Myers (4-7) for the first out in the 10th, with Shane Victornio making a leaping catch. Miguel Cairo beat out an infield hit, stole second and pinch-hitter Russell Branyan struck out.
Molina, who left Tuesday’s game with flulike symptoms, bounced a single through the left side of the infield. It was the third hit of the game for the slow-footed catcher — and it came on Yadier Molina Bobblehead night.
the Phillies went ahead on Pat Burrell’s RBI double in the sixth only to have pitcher Adam Wainwright tie the score for St. Louis with a run-scoring single in the bottom half.
Wainwright, a .310 batter who got his fourth pinch hit on Tuesday, tied it at 1 in the sixth with his second hit of the game. The Cardinals got two walks and two hits with two outs against Moyer but left the bases loaded when David Eckstein popped out to shallow right, with Jayson Werth slipping as he tore out a chunk of turf before hauling in the catch.
Two days earlier, [Aaron] Rowand slipped twice in center and then fell while chasing Ryan Ludwick’s fly near the warning track, making the catch from the seat of his pants to preserve a one-run lead in a 13-11 victory.
For the scores, boxscores and recaps on this and on all of Wednesday’s games, click here.
The Phillies now head for Washington D.C. for a 4 game series with the Nationals beginning on Thursday. Kyle Lohse opposes Jason Bergmann in the opener.
For the scores, boxscores and recaps on all of Thursday’s games, click here.
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